AC’s Creative Mind Humanities Lecture Series will feature six Thursday lectures presented two per day – on Jan. 19, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2.

All six lectures are free and open to the public.

Presenters are three doctoral members of the faculty at West Texas A&M University – Bruce Brasington, professor of history; Bonnie Roos, professor of English; and Byron Pearson, professor of history.

The midday lectures will be at 12:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall Theater on AC’s Washington Street Campus, while the evening lectures are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at AC’s Downtown Campus at 1314 S. Polk St.

The First World War raged in Europe for close to three years before the U.S. officially entered the conflict on April 16, 1917, and more than two million U.S. soldiers fought on battlefields in France. Germany formally announced its surrender on Nov. 11, 1918.

The Creative Mind lecturers will focus, among other things, on what prompted U.S. involvement in the war, what literary contributions were made during and following the war, and how American lumberjacks advanced the war effort.                                                                                                             

For more information about the Lecture Series, now in its 34^th year at Amarillo College, please contact Kristin Edford, instructor of humanities, at 806-371-5205 or visit actx.edu/humanities.

The lecture schedule is as follows:

Thursday, Jan. 19—Dr. Bruce Brasington, professor of history, West Texas A&M

12:30 p.m.—Mister Wilson’s War: Was the American Entry into World War I a Mistake?

Washington Street Campus, Concert Hall Theater

7 p.m.—Planning to Fail: World War I and the Age of the Expert

Downtown Campus, Bud Joyner Auditorium, 1314 S. Polk St.

 

Thursday, Jan. 26—Dr. Bonnie Roos, professor of English, West Texas A&M

12:30 p.m.—The Poetics of Paradox: World War I Writers in the Modernist Moment

Washington Street Campus, Concert Hall Theater

7 p.m.—All Quiet: Literary Absences on the Western Front of World War I

Downtown Campus, Bud Joyner Auditorium, 1314 S. Polk St.

 

Thursday, Feb. 2—Dr. Byron Pearson, professor of history, West Texas A&M

12:30 p.m.—The Woods of War: Logging and Loyalty ‘Over Here’

Washington Street Campus, Concert Hall Theater

7 p.m.—One Hell of a Complicated Proposition: How the Lumberjacks of the AEF Helped Win the First World War

Downtown Campus, Bud Joyner Auditorium, 1314 S. Polk St.